Sands of Time

by Terri Valentine

Set in present-day and 14th-century Saudi Arabia, Sands of Time tells of American doctor Chelsea Browne, who is sent back in time to heal the sick heir to a bedouin kingdom. Alone in an ancient land of savage beauty, her growing passion for a handsome but proud sheikh plunges her into danger.

Genres: Time Travel, M F Romance, Romance

448 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

Reviews

[Ke'alohi Worthington · Rating 2 out of 5]

the heroine is stupidly stubborn sometimes, mostly because she's in too much denial for too much time and refuses to culturally assimilate, which gets pretty frustrating because it isn't really resolved. And the poor guy.

[Venera Carelas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Love the storyline for this book! However I wish the book was written a little better! Not gonna lie the book lost me many times...I felt like the beginning and middle of the book were soooooo slow and then towards the end everything was rushed into one Concluding chapter. Some parts were overly descriptive and others, I just couldn’t make sense of things....I’m actually disappointed because I loved the storyline....I feel like in the end I didn’t feel passion or romance anymore...kind of a shitty ending too....just like....oh great, he brought home his knocked up girlfriend who apparently isn’t slender or pretty anymore....🤷‍♀️

[Barbara Ziblis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is hard to put down and easy to read. It was enjoyable except for one point. Are the events of the book really happening or not?

I think the book can be taken one of two ways. Either everything that happens is a delusion she suffers while stranded in the desert, and then at the end she has a final delusion while dying in a fire, or everything that happens is real.

But if everything that happens is real how did the modern day people find her assistant, Jamal, if he was left in the past? She never sees him again in the present, and she never sees him again in the past, so we are left wondering what happened, and if he is still in the past who was it that was found in the present?

On the other hand, if everything that happens was all in her head why would the royal family think that she was crucial to their ancient history? The prince thanks her for saving his 14th century ancestor. Then there's the assumption that if it was in her head she must have been found and cared for by some Bedouins, and in that case why was she not returned to a city by them?

The pregnancy is easily explained either way, if everything was a delusion it means she met harm in the desert and part of her broken, delusional mind created the romance story to get past the trauma, but if everything is real then obviously it's part of the romance story.

[Reforming · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't finish it.